Time for reinvention?

OK So 99X/10 has existed for over two years now. We started with good intention and goals and ambitions, what have we achieved? Very little. We released a sampler in 2005 which I believe is a very very excellent record. We got together a group of musicians who I believe are very talented and make wonderful music. We got some great reviews and even some airplay on influential radio stations. Some of us have gone on to get record deals with other labels and release music in different ways. We still have this framework and something of a name why don’t we do something with it? The main problem we are faced with is money, or rather the lack of it. To release the sampler cost over $4000 sadly we haven’t even come close to recouping that and aren’t about to spend that again. We talked about making the label digital only which I thought was a good idea at the time but nothing happened, nobody did anything…

What do we do now ? Anybody ? Its too good a collective to forget about …

Bloggy Bloggy

I am moving to Los Angeles in August.  Jason (GEB) and I are going to start a super-group with a bossanova flare…oh, and I might be getting some music up on iTunes thanks to Erin and Roger!  I will keep everyone posted. 

 P.S. – Never use Leafyhost for a website.  They “lost” my site about 5 months ago, “replaced” it a few weeks back, and it doesn’t work anymore.  Screw it, i’m using myspace for EVERYTHING. 

P.P.S – If you haven’t heard the new song Roger O’Donnell posted on his myspace page, go check it out: it’s beautiful. 

 P.P.P.S – Bryan, congratulations on the record label stuff!  Can’t wait to hear what you’ve been working on!

 Best,

 Dead Waiter

alka update

alka has recently signed to electronic eel , an up and coming electronic label out of philadelphia. look foward to a full length release (titled: principles of suffocation) from alka in April or May when both physical CDs and high quality downloads will be available.

in the meantime check out electronic eel’s free monthly podcast for some great varied and previously unheard electronic music:

www.electroniceel.com

www.myspace.com/electroniceelrecords

roger hearts apple

there is a great write up on roger over at apple.com

a B-Sides sunday

Growing up i used to get my older friends to drive me to a record store in the next suburb to mostly poor over covers and liner notes or occasionally spend birthday or christmas money on imported singles, (for the B-Sides!) (import since north america hasnt played the singles game for some time..) It was one of my favorite things about moving to england, suddenly singles were £1.99 instead of $13 to 20 dollars! (though i later worked in that record store and spent many quiet afternoons getting my fill of every import i had pondered and never purchased)
Still.. living in England.. great! i bought a load of singles and easily discovered some little heard tracks that became fast favorites. I think the internet has taken a bit of the glamour out of B-sides as it has done for many passtimes and passions that involve cross country roadtrips of anticipation or dusty church basement fleamarkes searches.. the ‘B-sides an rarities’ collections have done the same but i still love them..
Today i devoted to ‘A Lifetime of Temporary Relief’ the Low B-sides and rarities collection that i bought a while ago and havent had the time to really absorb (3 disks!) and also Jason (GDEB) sent me a ton of music recently and when he was here mixing his album we had spoken about Elbow. I must have mentioned that my favorite song of theirs is Loss which was a B-side from the cast of thousands album, on the single for fallen angel. So Jason just sent me tones of rare Elbow tracks.. i dont think they are on a collection and i havent asked him where he got them all but so far they are amazing.. i think it just paints a much larger picture of a band.. maybe a more personal one, where you hear silly covers that they do an they sing a bit out of tune and make mistakes and talk after songs and that kind of thing.. i love it..
stand out tracks (if you can find them)
Elbow – Stumble (so sweet and soft and like a reminiscing lullaby), Loss (longtime favorite, those piano chords give me shivers)
Low – Peanut Butter Toast and American Bandstand, Because you Stood Still, Sleep at the Bottom
but they are all good really..
Low’s myspace
elbow at myspace